ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS! WHICH GROUP ARE THEY? WHERE ARE THEY?
I have noticed that whenever the government
minister for immigration is doing an interview on ,whatever channel, the title
comes up as “Illegal immigration minister”. I hear the PM is considering two
ministers, one of whom is the above, and the other as the, “legal immigration
minister”. Certainly, now, one can easily get the impression that all
immigration is illegal. As I have said,
the biggest group of immigrants are Students paying lots of money to be in the
UK. Statistics show that the second
largest group of immigrants are workers in the NHS, presumably all paying
taxes. I wonder if they are illegal immigrants.
The third largest group of immigrants to the UK are
those working in the Care Sector. Again
I guess that they must be paying tax. Even though they now are not allowed to
bring their family to the UK. Recently I have seen this kind of operation in
other countries where the lucky immigrant gets to see his or her partner every
two years for about two weeks. Great.
Again I have to ask : Is this, the third largest group of immigrants to the UK,
illegal?
The final group of immigrants to the UK, in fact the
smallest group, are those arriving in small boats. That group represents less
than 3% of the total immigration numbers.
Yet one would have to wonder why it is that this seems to be the most
talked about group. Of course they don’t
all come in small boats. I have
personally been present and watched police stop a lorry which when opened
revealed mothers and babies, young children, and lots of other desperate
despondent people, unloaded, and sitting on garden walls alongside the
pavement.
It has been mentioned on FB that I use the exceptional
person as a demonstration. Of course, what the writer of that comment does not
know is that I have met hundreds of such people. And, been to the hotels where the state dumps
them.
Why is it that we hear so much about such people? Maybe because it covers other bad news that
the government does not want us to talk about. The ‘Friday news dumb. Or as the
advisor to the transport minster put it :
“The now infamous phrase stems from a memo from an adviser to the then-UK
transport secretary Stephen Byers, who coined the term in an internal memo,
written on 9/11/ 2001, saying it was, “a good day to bury bad news”.) Maybe
government highlights this small minority of people that deflects from us
discussing all the wasted money on PPE. Billions given to their friends, that
then did not work. Better talk about this, “less than 3%:” problem than talk
about those friend’s and billions of wasted taxpayers’ money.
But back to this less than 3%.
What happens is that that when they arrive, boat, lorry, or plane they then apply for asylum. They are then given ‘legal’ papers to stay,
until their case is assessed, to see if they genuinely are an “asylum seeker”.
Yes, I know that that is where the problem lies, as I have friends that have
waited 14 years for their claim for asylum to be properly listened to. Fortunately, now they are British Passport
holders. So my question again, as they have now applied for asylum, even if
they did not have any papers, arriving here in a strange way, but now they have
legal papers to stay, while they await a hearing – are they now illegal
immigrants. Of course, you know my
answer. But if they are now legal, whilst they await a hearing, where are these
illegal immigrants?
Adrian Hawkes
17th March
2024
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